From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2573 invoked by alias); 2 Jun 2003 06:06:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2565 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2003 06:06:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO redhat.com) (24.131.133.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Jun 2003 06:06:43 -0000 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 259D76C68C; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 02:06:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 23:43:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: DOS email attack? Message-ID: <20030602060642.GA24411@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: overseers@sources.redhat.com References: <20030602014707.GA16419@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030602014707.GA16419@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-q2/txt/msg00215.txt.bz2 On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:47:07PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >We're getting really hammered by viruses today. I've been blocking >things right and left. I guess it is time to either switch to >spamassassin or add attachment recognition to the current filter. I've added better mime checking to the spam filter. This has the added benefit of blocking text/html mail to individuals. This was slipping by before. I now block anything with an attachment that has a .pif filename, among other filenames. I'll also add automatic blocking for already-spam-tagged email. cgf